Data Engineer Contracts in Central London

Data Engineer
London > Central London

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Central London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 84 106
Rank change year-on-year +4 +22 -34
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 57 97 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.36% 2.57% 2.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.48% 2.70% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 69 61
10th Percentile £396 £438 £425
25th Percentile £463 £470 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% -0.87% +2.22%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £638
90th Percentile £730 £740 £725
London median daily rate £525 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -8.70% -0.86% +5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £45.75
25th Percentile £46.75 - £48.00
Median hourly rate £48.50 - £53.00
75th Percentile £50.25 - £58.00
90th Percentile - - £60.25
London median hourly rate £51.75 £72.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year -28.13% +39.81% -15.23%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Central London with a recognized job title 2,299 3,591 4,259
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.32% 95.20% 94.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,640 2,455 3,245
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £444 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +4.89% +7.14%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £813 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 26 53
10th Percentile £20.19 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £22.13 £18.93 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.34% -5.41% +108.60%
75th Percentile £27.81 £57.50 £50.75
90th Percentile £40.38 £86.65 £65.10
London median hourly rate £27.25 £35.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.78% +2.14% +8.63%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Central London

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Central London

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Central London

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in Central London

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +6 49 £500 -12.66% 15
West End of London - 4 - -
City of Westminster - 3 £750 -
Camden - 1 £625 -
Data Engineer
London

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Central London region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 40 (70.18%) SQL
2 30 (52.63%) Python
2 30 (52.63%) ETL
3 29 (50.88%) Data Modelling
4 25 (43.86%) Data Pipeline
5 21 (36.84%) AWS
6 20 (35.09%) Azure
6 20 (35.09%) Data Engineering
7 19 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (28.07%) Security Cleared
9 15 (26.32%) Data Quality
9 15 (26.32%) Analytics
10 14 (24.56%) Kafka
10 14 (24.56%) SC Cleared
10 14 (24.56%) Agile
11 13 (22.81%) Social Skills
12 12 (21.05%) Serverless
12 12 (21.05%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (19.30%) Parquet
13 11 (19.30%) Databricks
13 11 (19.30%) Public Sector
13 11 (19.30%) CI/CD
13 11 (19.30%) Business Intelligence
13 11 (19.30%) JSON
14 10 (17.54%) Apache Avro
14 10 (17.54%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (15.79%) DevOps
15 9 (15.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 9 (15.79%) PySpark
15 9 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (10.53%) Apache
1 6 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (10.53%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.51%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (3.51%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (36.84%) AWS
2 20 (35.09%) Azure
3 12 (21.05%) AWS Lambda
3 12 (21.05%) Serverless
4 9 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (15.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 8 (14.04%) AWS Step Functions
6 7 (12.28%) Amazon MSK
6 7 (12.28%) Amazon S3
7 6 (10.53%) Power Platform
8 4 (7.02%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (7.02%) dbt
9 3 (5.26%) Amazon EventBridge
9 3 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (5.26%) GCP
9 3 (5.26%) Snowflake
10 2 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) Firewall
1 1 (1.75%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (19.30%) Parquet
3 10 (17.54%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (15.79%) SQL Server
5 8 (14.04%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (14.04%) Data Lake
6 7 (12.28%) Big Data
6 7 (12.28%) DynamoDB
6 7 (12.28%) Relational Database
7 6 (10.53%) Power BI
8 5 (8.77%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (7.02%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (5.26%) Data Mining
10 3 (5.26%) Hadoop
10 3 (5.26%) NoSQL
10 3 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (5.26%) Tableau
11 2 (3.51%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
11 2 (3.51%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (3.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Deequ
1 2 (3.51%) GitLab
1 2 (3.51%) JIRA
1 2 (3.51%) Zephyr
2 1 (1.75%) Git
General
1 13 (22.81%) Social Skills
2 11 (19.30%) Public Sector
3 8 (14.04%) Finance
4 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Banking
6 1 (1.75%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.75%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (24.56%) Kafka
2 11 (19.30%) JSON
3 10 (17.54%) Apache Avro
4 9 (15.79%) PySpark
5 3 (5.26%) ARM Templates
5 3 (5.26%) JSON Schema
6 2 (3.51%) Great Expectations
6 2 (3.51%) Middleware
6 2 (3.51%) Pandas
6 2 (3.51%) REST
6 2 (3.51%) XML
7 1 (1.75%) .NET
7 1 (1.75%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.75%) Node.js
7 1 (1.75%) RESTful
7 1 (1.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.51%) Algorithms
1 2 (3.51%) Data Structures
1 2 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.75%) Hedge funds
2 1 (1.75%) Life Science
2 1 (1.75%) Market Risk
2 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.51%) Linux
2 1 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (52.63%) ETL
2 29 (50.88%) Data Modelling
3 25 (43.86%) Data Pipeline
4 20 (35.09%) Data Engineering
5 15 (26.32%) Analytics
6 14 (24.56%) Agile
7 11 (19.30%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (19.30%) CI/CD
8 9 (15.79%) DevOps
9 8 (14.04%) Migration
10 7 (12.28%) Data Ingestion
10 7 (12.28%) Data Integration
10 7 (12.28%) Data Migration
10 7 (12.28%) Visualisation
11 6 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (10.53%) Data Governance
11 6 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (10.53%) SDLC
11 6 (10.53%) SFIA
12 5 (8.77%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 40 (70.18%) SQL
2 30 (52.63%) Python
3 5 (8.77%) Scala
3 5 (8.77%) T-SQL
4 4 (7.02%) Java
5 3 (5.26%) C#
6 2 (3.51%) Bicep
6 2 (3.51%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.51%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.51%) XPath
6 2 (3.51%) XQuery
7 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.75%) R
7 1 (1.75%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 16 (28.07%) Security Cleared
2 14 (24.56%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.26%) Degree
4 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (26.32%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.75%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (7.02%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (14.04%) Terraform
2 4 (7.02%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (19.30%) Databricks
2 5 (8.77%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.77%) Oracle
3 4 (7.02%) Informatica
3 4 (7.02%) SAP
4 2 (3.51%) Bloomberg
4 2 (3.51%) Foundry
4 2 (3.51%) NEC
4 2 (3.51%) Palantir
4 2 (3.51%) Refinitiv
5 1 (1.75%) Citrix
5 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.75%) SnapLogic